Southern Vampire Mysteries' Quotes

Mar 26

“‘Eric, that girl I was just talking to is about three feet away from us with part of her head missing.’
‘Sookie,’ he said, suddenly serious, ‘I’ve been dead for a few hundred years. I am used to it. But she is not quite gone. There is a spark. Do you want me to bring her over?’
I was shocked speechless. How could I make that decision?
And while I thought about it, he said, ‘She is gone.’” Sookie Stackhouse and Eric Northman - “Living Dead in Dallas”

Mar 20

“After I’d looked at it for a long minute, I said to Jason. ‘I don’t want to talk to you again. Ever.’ I faced Crystal. ‘I hope you enjoyed it, bitch,’ I said, and I turned as quick as I could and brought the brick down on Calvin’s hand.” Sookie Stackhouse - “From Dead to Worse”

Mar 14

“‘…I wish I could cut Eric out of my life. But I can’t.’
‘Unless he gets staked,’ Quinn said.
I felt a pang in my heart that almost had me clapping a hand to my chest.
‘You don’t want that to happen.’ Quinn’s mouth was compressed in a hard line.
‘No, of course not!’
‘You care about him.’
Oh, crap.” Sookie Stackhouse and John Quinn - “All Together Dead”

Mar 8

“Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal waves of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric’s eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. ‘I knew I’d get on top of you somehow,’ he said.
‘Are you trying to make me mad so I’ll forget how scared I am?’
‘No, I’m just opportunistic.’
I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, ‘Oh, do that again. It felt great.’” Sookie Stackhouse and Eric Northman - “Living Dead in Dallas”

Mar 5

“‘Bill?’ I called. ‘Are you okay?’
Just then he sauntered back in the yard looking positively rosy.
‘Bill,’ I said, feeling old and grim and gray. A dull horror, that really was just a deep disappointment, filled the pit of my stomach.
He stopped in his tracks.
‘They fired at us and killed some of us,’ he said. His fangs gleamed, and he was shiny with excitement.
‘You just killed somebody.’
‘To defend us.’
‘To get vengeance.’
There was a clear difference between the two, in my mind, at that moment. He seemed nonplussed.
‘You didn’t even wait to see if I was okay,’ I said. Once a vampire, always a vampire. Tigers can’t change their stripes. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. I heard every warning anyone had ever fed me, in the warm drawl of home.” Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton - “Living Dead in Dallas”

Mar 1

“Calvin stepped forward and took my hand. He leaned over to talk very close to my ear. ‘Darlin’,’ he said, ‘you have to do this. I accepted this, when I stood up for her when she was married. And I knew what she was. And you know Jason. This might easily have been the other way ‘round. I might be about to do this to you. And you don’t heal as well. This is better. And it has to be. Our people require this.’ He straightened and looked me right in the eyes. His own were golden, utterly strange, and quite steady.” Calvin Norris and Sookie Stackhouse - “From Dead to Worse”

“‘I know that. Sookie, I’m a man who almost always knows his mind, but I have to tell you…I don’t know what to say. I thought we were just about ideal for each other until this.’ Quinn’s eyes blazed in his face suddenly. ‘If he died, we’d have no problems.’
‘If you killed him, I’d have a problem,’ I said. I couldn’t get any plainer than that.” John Quinn and Sookie Stackhouse - “All Together Dead”

Feb 28

“I reached Hotshot well before seven. I’d last been out here at Jason and Crystal’s wedding, where I’d danced with Quinn. That visit of Quinn’s had been the only time he and I had been intimate. In hindsight, I regretted having taken that step. It had been a mistake. I’d been banking on a future that never came to pass. I’d jumped the gun. I hoped I’d never make that mistake again.” Sookie Stackhouse - “From Dead to Worse”

Feb 27

“‘You look especially luscious in that knit dress with nothing underneath,’ Eric said. ‘If you left Bill and came to me of your own free will, he would accept that.’
‘But I’m not going to do any such thing,’ I said.” Eric Northman and Sookie Stackhouse - “Living Dead in Dallas”

“‘What are you doing?’ Eric asked, and he wasn’t being facetious. He was glacial with disapproval.
‘Dancing, why?’ I gave a wave to signal Eric to scoot. But Barry had stopped, already, and given me a little goodbye wave.
‘I was having a good time,’ I protested.
‘You were twitching your assets in front of every male in the room,’ he said. ‘Like a…’
‘You hold up, buddy! You stop right there!’ I held up a finger, warning him.
‘Take your finger out of my face,’ he said.” Eric Northman and Sookie Stackhouse - “All Together Dead”